Director Talent Acquisition

RigUp exists to empower the men and women that power the world and make all of our lives possible. To make progress towards our mission, we must attract, retain, and grow the best minds of our time to tackle the challenges that are ahead of us. We're hiring our first Talent Acquisition Director to take on the ambitious task of scaling up a world-class team.

RigUp is an extremely fast-growing, well-capitalized tech startup in Austin. In the last year, we increased our headcount 3X and currently have over 160 employees and continue to grow at a similar clip this year. Our Talent objective is to attract, align, and grow top talent through a world-class talent experience and we are looking for a Recruiting leader to build a team, processes, and framework that will allow us to scale our team while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.

The ideal candidate has an impeccable eye for talent and has a bias for finding solutions to business problems. As a leader of the Recruiting team, you have a track record to be a talent magnet and can attract top-tier recruiters to join your team. You will partner with every key function at RigUp and be responsible for working alongside other leaders to define RigUp’s recruiting strategy using a data-based approach.

What We Need...

Build and grow a high-performing talent acquisition organization

Partner with the Head of Talent and other departmental leaders and build and deliver a recruiting strategy

Partner with Marketing to develop and execute on employment brand roadmap to make RigUp the place to work in Austin

Create a recruiting machine that can deliver diverse, top-tier talent at the volumes required by the business across both technical and business orgs

Partner with Talent Development to create enablement materials to help train interviewers and hiring teams

Keep a pulse on the competitive landscape for talent and creating initiatives to move us “up and to the right”

Partner with business partners in Talent and other orgs to execute on our Diversity and Inclusion priorities

Leverage technology throughout our hiring process to continually improve the productivity of the recruiting and hiring teams

About You...

10+ years work experience in recruiting of which at least 4+ years of experience as a people manager (and ideally, managing managers or leads)

You thrive in an ever-changing environment and have an extremely high bias for action

Expert ability to both zoom out (shape strategies and think about our recruiting priorities several years out) and zoom in (coach team and execute on the recruiting roadmap)

You are a coach who gets personal fulfillment by succeeding through others

You are always questioning the status quo and look for opportunities to break convention when you think better results can be achieved

When you try to understand a problem, you ask for the data. You are fluent with recruiting analytics and how to improve systems and processes

Technology we use

Location

RigUp is located in downtown Austin right next to Lady Bird Lake. We're close to a ton of restaurants, coffee shops, bars, and trails along the water!

An Insider's view of RigUp

How does your team reward individual success?

We are rewarded with a promise. At the end of a season of ambiguity and strife, apart from any monetary or material items, we will always be able to say there was joy, encouragement, and meaning.

Quan

Customer Support Specialist

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

One of the coolest things we’ve been working on has been parsing resumes to gather information about employment history and references so that our consultants don’t have to spend a ton of time filling out confusing forms. We hope to get quicker, more accurate data while making the platform easier to access and more useful for our consultants.

Zayne

Engineering Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

RigUp has fostered my career growth by coupling my strengths and interests with the company’s needs. I’ve gotten the opportunity to fill a variety of different roles that I’ve gained an invaluable amount of experience from and that will increase my marketability down the road.

Leyna

Business Process Analyst

What is your vision for the company?

At RigUp, we're building the largest job marketplace in the energy industry by making it easier for contractors to find work and for companies to staff up by hiring ready, qualified workers. As CEO, I want to grow an organization that creates values in the world and ensures RigUp is an environment where our employees feel empowered to make decision

Xuan

CEO

What’s the vibe like in the office?

The energy at the RigUp office is contagious. We work on interesting problems and are truly making a difference in people's lives. Work is simply better when you love what you do!